Xbox Live Gold membership On Sale for $40 at the Microsoft Store

Xbox Live Gold membership is on Sale for $40 at the Microsoft Store.

[qwerty676]

if you looked around you could already buy a lot of yearly memberships for 40 bucks online.

[Abash]

I thought this was an official price cut, but it looks like it's just the Microsoft STORE reducing the price of a 12 month card

[Oner]

Correct, Aaron Greenberg confirmed on Twitter it is limited time only.

[Pogmathoin]

I think this has something to do with being near the end of financial year, get as much sold as possible....

[mikeslemonade]

I have almost 3 years worth of Gold already.

[Neonridr]

yeah, you can always find deals through other sources, but nice to see a deal being given by MS themselves.

[XanderZane]

True.. Amazon had a sale for $40 XBL Cards for a week last month. Now's a good time to grab a 12 month subscription. I might as well get mine now. Get 2 years worth and I'm all set for awhile.

[crazychris4124]

How about they make multiplayer and voice chat free for everybody so i dont have to pay $40 just to play half my game or the full game if its multiplayer only. If you want the extra goodies like bigger sales and exclusive content than you can pay $40 if you want.

[curtis92]

Yeah i think that's where this is going. rather than being a service that you're required to have, it's becoming more of a service you pay because of the benefits you get from it. It's a much better deal for consumers.

[crazychris4124]

I use it for multiplayer and party chat. In the last year i bought 1 game that was on sale with gold n that was last week with alien isolation. I paid 50 to save 6 extra bucks. This is a scam for people like me who just play multiplayer games n use party chat.

[Muzikguy]

Not trying to sound like an ass, but aren't you a few years late to be complaining about paying for Xbox Live? Maybe like a decade late? If all you do is play online multiplayer than I'd argue you get the most out of your purchase. Really, you'd have less reason to complain

[crazychris4124]

How about they just allow Xbox Silver to now cover multiplayer and party chat access??? Gamers win. People who just play multiplayer can save $40 a year, use it towards new games and people who buy Gold will still be able to play the free games, use the additional discounts and other benefits. Dont see whats the problem here. Im not taking away your gold just trying to play half of my game without having to shell out another $40 on top of my $60 game.

[Muzikguy]

Well they started the pay to play online and only seemed to add free games to compete with Sony. I don't see them stopping the "pay to play" online thing. They won't drop what they had originally done to continue something they only did in response to someone else. At least that's how I see it. It would be nice. You'd probably get a lot of people complaining then about having to pay all this time :/

[Insomnia_84]

Misleading tittle.

[ScorpiusX]

Great price to bad am paid up to march 6 2017, if they would allow to go beyond 3 years at a time .

[theindiearmy]

Umm...it's been on sale for a week now.

[gamerfan0909]

I buy all of my live stuff in bulk during black friday. I have like 5 years worth of live that cost me 20 to 30 bucks around the holidays a piece.

[IrishSt0ner]

Screw the rest of the world, as usual. I suppose at least people can purchase from the US store if they know how.

I havn't renewed my subscription this year due to family gold and I rarely play XBO online anyway. One thing does piss me off is 'family gold' users can't get GOLD deals or free games. [expletive] em, Steam FTW.

[WizzroSupreme]

I should renew my subscription, it looks like.

[Kingdomcome247]

I renewed back in January for this price through Gamestop. I found out something I didn't know that kind of irked me, though. My Gold lapsed because I wasn't paying attention, and while playing online one night it expired at 10 pm my time. This was my fault, and at that moment I didn't have enough to cover the renewal in my bank account and my bank was closed. I figured I could use one of my many trial codes from games that I had paid for until I could get to the bank in the morning, but no such luck. I was told that those codes are only for accounts that haven't previously had Gold before. It was kind of frustrating.

[TheOnlyMastrx]

Has been on sale recently at Walmart, Gamestop, Newegg, and I believe Amazon. If you haven't picked up another year get this while you can, it always seems once everyone has had their sale it won't be on sale again for a while.

[Tedakin]

I got a year of Gold off of ebay for 35 bucks a month ago.